As key components of a healthy city, parks are critical environments that have the potential to support all ages in physical activity and social engagement. Yet, far too often, neighbourhood and community parks within suburban areas are non-stimulating and lack challenging play options for all ages. The Intergenerational Parks: Design Guide for Physical Activity and Social Engagement Across Generations aims to challenge our thinking about parks and how we design them. The Design Guide is the culmination of research funded by the Australian Research Council which involved the collaboration of several key partners: QUT, Moreton Bay Regional Council, Playscape Creations, Conrad Gargett, the Heart Foundation of Australia, 7 Senses Foundation, and the National Wellness Institute of Australia. The Guide includes evidence-based recommendations and design ideas to provide designers and community decision-makers with creative and meaningful ways to entice people to parks, enable them to be physically active, and engage them socially across generations. The research demonstrates intergenerational interactions do not automatically happen. Therefore, neighbourhood and community parks must be designed with opportunities for parks users of all ages to be active and engaged, and benefit from being outside in green spaces.
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Australia-wide
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Requested inclusion by Tracy Washington 1 March 2023
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Cushing, Debra (Author); Buys, Elinor (Author); Mackenzie, Janelle (Author); Trost, Stewart (Author); Washington, Tracy (Author); Mortensen, Wes (Author)
Source
. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld.: 2022
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